Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city fathers of Bloemfontein voted to install no Jim Crow section and instead to ban all non-whites from the stadium. As is usual in South Africa, this was said to be in the blacks' own interest: "The non-Europeans," vouchsafed one Bloemfontein councilman, "derive the greatest benefit from taking part in sport, not watching...
...radio listeners for 26 years, but it had never toured abroad, largely because of cost. One problem: most of the choir members-including lawyers, clerks, filling-station attendants-would have to get leaves from their jobs. But the current tour (estimated cost: $800,000) was finally made possible by benefit dances, banquets, concerts and outright solicitation. To cover any remaining deficit, the wealthy church will dig into its own treasury. And employers, whether Mormons or not, gladly gave their employees leave...
Actually, surveys by Westinghouse and other corporations have shown that employees are least interested in personal items. What they want is stories on such subjects as the company's plans for the future, its employee benefit program, new orders for the company. Union officials recognize the failure of many companies to use their publications effectively. Said an Omaha A.F.L. leader: "There are so many ways the company could put their point across. If they'd come out in their house organ and explain why they're going to do this or that, who's going...
...suckers for the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000 private bomb shelter because he just would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine...
...decision to raise tariffs on bicycles, the President paid tribute to the skill of foreign manufacturers, mostly British, who make lightweight bicycles that outperform heavier U.S. varieties. If U.S. bicyclemakers would follow the foreign example, said the President, U.S. industry would benefit. Nevertheless, he penalized the foreign manufacturers with a 50% tariff increase...